Conservation Areas and Article 4 Directions - Scotland

Under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 a local authority may determine which parts of its area are of special architectural or historic interest and may designate these as Conservation Areas. The public will normally be consulted on any proposal to designate conservation areas or to change their boundaries.There are over 600 Conservation Areas in Scotland. Many were designated in the early 1970s, but some have since been re-designated, merged, renamed, given smaller or larger boundaries and new ones have been added. They can cover historic land, battlefields, public parks, designed landscapes or railways but most contain groups of buildings extending over areas of a village, town or city. Further planning controls on development can be made by way of an Article 4 Direction, which may or may not be associated with a Conservation Area.


An Article 4 Direction is not a conservation designation but an additional control within such areas. It is a statement made under The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2011. The Direction, made by a local authority and approved by Scottish Ministers, removes all or some of the permitted development rights on an area.


The effect of a Direction is that planning permission will be required for specific types of development which would otherwise be regarded as 'permitted development', i.e. development that does not require a planning application. Directions can cover a variety of minor works and might include: the replacement of doors and windows, the erection of gates, fences, garages, sheds, porches, storage tanks or the installation of satellite antennae.


This dataset contains Conservation Areas, Conservation Areas with associated Article 4 Directions, Article 4 Directions associated with a Conservation Area, and a small number of discrete Article 4 Direction areas.

 
Citation proposal
. Conservation Areas and Article 4 Directions - Scotland. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/31de199f-6261-468c-bacb-e2ad3018d851

Simple

Alternate title

coar

Date ( Revision )
2020-02-13
Identifier

www.spatialhub.scot

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sh_coar

  Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )

  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

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    Protected sites

Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints

Limitations on public access

Use limitation

Use of the data is available to any organisation that is a member of the OSMA (One Scotland Mapping Agreement) or any UK academic institution via Edina's subscription Digimap service. It is not currently commercially available.

Metadata language
eng English
Topic category
  • Planning cadastre
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S
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Reference system identifier

urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4258

Reference system identifier

EPSG

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OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)

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7.9

Reference system identifier

EPSG

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ETRS89 (EPSG:4258)

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7.9

Reference system identifier

EPSG

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WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator (EPSG:3857)

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7.9

Distribution format

  • OGC:WMC

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    1.3.0

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OnLine resource
http://www.spatialhub.scot/get-data/  
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Statement

This dataset was amalgamated, optimised and published by the Spatial Hub. This is an amalgamation of two prior datasets, Conservation Areas and Article 4 Directions, which in many cases overlap equally. These cases are assumed to indicate Conservation Areas with associated Article 4 Directions and the duplicate areas are removed as Article 4 Directions prior to amalgamation of these two datasets.


The following quality assurance checks and corrections are carried out on the data:

- Polygons are not dissolved/ aggregated by key name and local authority.

- The minimum polygon area allowed in the data is 5 square metres

- Checks for invalid geometry types

- The maximum angle for any spikes is 3 degrees

- Any duplicate geometry is removed from the data

- Duplicate key names for polygons are not removed

- Polygons with no key names are not removed

- Checks for basic geometry i.e. self-intersection


Please contact spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk for more details.

Metadata

File identifier
31de199f-6261-468c-bacb-e2ad3018d851   XML
Metadata language
eng English
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2020-02-18
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

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